There was an interesting structure next to us. we were on the corner. but the strange thing is, sunny side is a huge sidewalk instead of a street. it’s like, if you talk a side street, and concrete over the street, so that no cars can drive down it, and just make it a big ass sidewalk. It was beautiful. we called it “the mall” (don’t ask why). I remember playing in the mall every day. except at 4 Pm. at 4 is when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came on. Every kid would go inside to watch that. Donetello was my favorite because he was smart like me. he liked to fix things. maybe I just liked him because he was a nerd like me. i dunno.

anyway, magnolia was great. I didn’t really understand when we had to leave. all I know is, it was over. From what I remember, the building was bought out by some white people and the building went condo. My parents couldn’t afford to buy the condo, so we had to go.

After that, was a blury series of homeless shelters, staying at my mom’s friends house till we wore out our welcome, staying in my aunt’s dirty basement, and sleeping in our car.

that hurt a lot. it was fine when I had to sleep in our car. who cares. But it was my sister. She was a little baby. thank goodness there’s no way she could actually remember any of this. but, my mom didn’t want us to sleep in the car. us meaning my brother and I . So she had us stay with my little brother’s best friend. it was fun. Tiracka was his name. it was only he and his mother. his mother was raising him alone. She was a dance instructor, who happened to conduct her dance classes at night. Neither me nor my brother thought anything was strange about that at the time. And Tiracka was the coolest kid. he had all the toys. everything you could ever want. he had Nintendo AND genesis. Only other kid I knew who had that much money was my cousin. staying with them was fun. I was totally oblivious to the fact that my mother, step father, and little baby sister was sleeping in their car while we were living the 2 video game system good life.

I do remember thinking about it though after a couple of weeks. I was mostly sad for Minuet. I didn’t think it was fair that she went through that. that precious bayb didn’t do anything.

It’s mostly blurry to me, my jr high and high school years. But there were 2 big events I remember strongly. They were the reasons I ran away from home at the age of 16. And never came back.

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Posted by kingdom on Friday, April 11th, 2008 at 5:43 am.